Snap’s ad archive shows some Democratic and progressive orgs were able to target ads using the data of a GOP data broker; Snap blames an internal mistake (Lachlan Markay/Axios)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company’s systems were not hacked  —  A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company’s systems were not hacked  —  A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.

Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon  —  To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
PayPal plans to add support for iPhone’s Tap to Pay feature in its PayPal and Venmo iOS apps “soon”, add Apple Pay to its checkout options, and more  —  The PayPal and Venmo iOS apps will soon offer Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone functionality, allowing merchants that use PayPal …

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India says it will set up a Grievance Appellate Committee with the veto power to reverse the content moderation decisions of social media companies  —  India will set up grievance committees with the veto power to reverse content moderation decisions of social media firms, it said today …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Crypto broker NYDIG, which raised $1B at a $7B+ valuation in December 2021, laid off around 110 people, about a third of its workforce, in September  —  Company said last year that it had raised $1 billion at a valuation of more than $7 billion  —  NYDIG, the bitcoin trading and banking firm …